Telegraph Sport provides its everything-you-need-to-know team guide and
profile about Australia in the countdown to the 2014 World Cup finals in
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How they qualified No qualification cakewalks against the Cook Islands these days. The Socceroos squeaked through the Asia group, a late goal against Iraq securing third place and automatic qualification.

World Cup high Got to last 16 in 2006 and has a glorious opportunity to progress against 10-man Italy, but couldn’t apply the coup de grace and lost to an injury-time penalty.

World Cup low Put up a decent show in South Africa and were harshly eliminated on goal difference in favour of Ghana, a 0-4 paddling off Germany the hammer blow.